waiting lists being added to ipsc-matches.net

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hi all,

Just FYI, the ISP is migrating to a new piece of hardware, an older drive is failing, so I'm seeing some freezes/connectivity/etc issues, until the migration is complete. This is affecting everything being hosted by them, it's not specific to this site...

So, no need to panic, things should be back to normal "real soon now(tm)" :rolleyes:

Thanks!
 
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what it looked like was in the process of migrating to a new webserver (from the old one, which crashed) some database programming libraries got 'upgrades' (or downgraded). Either way, they were not 100% compatible with the old ones, so some of the more complicated SQL statements were no longer working (duh!!!!). I had to re-write parts of the system on the fly, to simplify things a bit (it only affected a couple of very specific functionalities, all admin, so regular users would not have been affected).

Should be ok now - if anyone sees any error msgs (not connectivity issues, but if you try something and the system shows you an error msg), let me know what that msg is and what you were doing - something might have slipped through...

Geeze... changing library versions without telling the users ahead of time, or even analyzing the impact?? Lousy IT processes... ;)
 
Hi all,

Ok, waiting lists are being phased in... Nothing happens automatically yet, what's currently there is just for visual purposes, to get feedback and some testing for people.

The idea is as follows: if there is a squad you'd like to be on, but that squad is full, you can signup for that squad's waiting list. The system will keep track of who's signed up when, so it's first-come-first serve. Everyone can see who's waiting for what squads (match administrators can see the names of the people signed up and can remove them from the list, shooters only see the display nicknames, and they can't do anything on that list). you can remove yourself from the waiting list anytime, but you lose your place if you re-sign up.

Note that this is done on a per-squad basis, so even if you are already signed up to a match, you can still signup on waiting lists of other squads, if you'd like to move and shoot at a different time.

If matches are listed as closed or hidden, no changes to waiting lists will be allowed.

This is what have so far. What I want to do next is enable automatic signup, so whenever an opening appears on a squad, the first person from the waiting list gets added automatically (with an email, probably), and then is removed from any other waiting list and/or squad for that match that (s)he might be registered in.

There is a thing I need to work out first (dealing with the admin swapping people between squads, without activating the auto signup), and an ability by the admin to shut this process off, but that will be happening in the next little while...

So, take a look, and any comments/etc, let me know (here is fine). Like I said, you can do whatever you want with the waiting list(s) now, it won't affect any of your registrations, these are just for display/testing purposes only...

Thanks!
 
ok, waiting lists are now active, with automated signup and email notification. Also, people will get an email reminder from the system 14 and 3 days before they are scheduled to shoot, to give them a chance to review and/or pull out of matches they won't be able to make... Thanks.
 
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